Annual celebrations
Ms. O'Connor's 1st Class celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge. They had a great time learning the Siege of Ennis dance!
Ms. Kelly`s 6th class attended a fantastic Rediscovery Academy Engineering workshop in Ballyroan Library for Engineering Week 2022! During Engineering Week 2022, 5th classes enjoy an amazing show with Scientific Sue and chat with engineers in real time in "I`m an engineer, get me out of here"! Ms. Godson's Senior Infants did their best to [...]
Sunday November 28th marks the beginning of Advent. Advent is a time of preparation for Christmas. The Advent wreath has five candles. On the first two Sundays of Advent the priest lights a purple candle. On the third Sunday, he lights a pink candle, and on the fourth Sunday he lights another purple one. Finally [...]
We have investigated finger-prints, magnets, floating and sinking, rainbow spinners and played with a non-Newtonian fluid- obleck! We had lots of fun, predicting what would happen and then conducting our investigations. We also read about lots of female scientists such as Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace and Jane Goodall.
Thanks to Lorcan Kelleher, we (the 5th and 6th classes) were given the opportunity to talk with Italian Space Engineers Giulia and Cristina. These two inspirational young women gave fantastic presentations on how stars are formed and how we use Space to keep an eye on Earth. They talked about how they came to have [...]
Junior Infants have been working hard during Math's week. We went on a math's trail around the school and looked out for numbers and shapes. We looked for shapes in our classroom and did lots of fun activities using our math's skills.
We made some spooky 2D shape pictures for Maths Week and Halloween. We took our turn rolling the dice, and chose a matching shape. Then when the bell rang we used our shapes to make some spooky houses!